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Checks are mailed from New York, so people on the east coast might receive them as early as today or Saturday. The rest of the US should receive them by the end of next week. And other countries should be receiving checks within the next few weeks, depending on how quick mail service is to your country. Google dooesn't control how quickly it takes mail to reach you ;)
I'm a UK publisher too. In the past the Google cheques have arrived with me four days (near to Liverpool) after being posted from New York. With the postal strike on (and I presume that airmail from America goes through London) it may be quite some time before either of us see our cheques.
Now with the mail strikes in England is a time that I would especially have liked Google to offer payment by direct bank deposit - but c'est la vie.
And not all checks are sent at the same time either. Last month, some people reported a postmark date one day earlier than my check was postmarked.
If October checks were actually sent on 10/27, we would have had reports of a lot of people already receiving them by now, and we've had none.
Nothing showing up on payment history on [many] dollars from the start "October 17 to October end".
The earnings now showing up as "payment sent" are for the period Sept 1 - Sept 30.
Earnings for October will show as "calculated" around the 2-5th November, and will not show as "payment sent" until a few days from the end of November.
That would be a lot more than $1,800 over a 15 day period.
I think most people here would like to know that what members post is credible.
UKFord, you previously indicated that you were earning $200-$300 per day
That would be a lot more than $1,800 over a 15 day period.
There could be plenty of explanations for this, rather than jumping to the conclusion that UKFord is being less than truthful with what his/her earnings are.
First, the $200-300 per day figure would have been for October. The $1800 figure would have been for September.
Perhaps UKFord only began running AdSense in mid-September. Or perhaps AdSense wasn't used on all the sites, or on all the pages within the site(s) in September as it was used on for October. Or perhaps it is a site with thousands of pages that took several weeks to be targeted properly with the mediabot, which would definitely result in much higher earnings once that was completed.
And with continued tweaking, and adding additional content, it is highly likely that publishers can increase CTR and impressions to earn even more revenue over the previous month. This is precisely what smart publishers would be and should be doing.
Just because someone reports significantly higher earnings from one month to another does not mean that person is not credible. In fact, that person likely has a lot to offer and share so others can do the same.
I started with AdSense in July and received that month's check in a more or less timely fashion in August. But I have not received a check since--not for August nor September.
A query to Google yielded the intelligence that, in so many words, the mailing date is not really a mailing date (wha'?) and it can take--get this--*six to nine weeks* for the check to get to you. Huh?
Everybody badmouths the USPS but in fact it is quite a good service. Where I live, mail from New York usually arrives in 48 hours.
Anyway, it's been about nine weeks since the end of August so I sent another message to Google and they said they'd stop payment on the earlier check (what check?) and reissue.
I hope! So far for me AdSense as been a beautiful dream, but not much else.